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Show Keep Good Times Coming Judging from reports "better times'' are on the way. The job ahead is to keep them coming. Action is needed to hasten the ultimate ul-timate arrival. Many more men must be put to work so they can buy the food and clothing their families need. And it must be done with less than the normal amount of money. Fortunately, the desired result can be accomplished by adopting a policy of devoting the public funds to the most useful and most necessary affairs. For instance, in the matter of roads and streets, there is no question but that many more miles of useable surfaces are essential. es-sential. These will be most useful when the type of surface chosen provides the greatest volume of people with good roads. As one authority says, "We all prefer plush seated limousines to Fords, but we do not prefer to ride nin miles on horseback through the mud so as to be able to ride a mile in a limousine when we could make it all the way over a cheap road in a Ford." Ten miles of "satisfactory" surface sur-face is much better than nin: miles of mud or dust and one mile of "excellent" road. Each improvement im-provement should be justifiable from the standpoint of need and should be within the size of the pocketbook. In road and street building the amount of the expenditure, not the products used, governs the number of men employed. |